Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:13:53 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811271108220.16813-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199811260513.VAA00592@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD > > > > from DOS partition, using /boot/loader? > > > > > > It's not generally possible to boot FreeBSD once DOS has started; > > > modern DOS versions corrupt the BIOS vectors in a fashion that makes it > > > impossible to obtain system information. > > > > I said: "is it possible to start from _DOS_ _partition_". Not "from under > > running DOS"... see the difference? > > I didn't, no. Yes, it's possible; you can load the kernel and then You mean: it's possible with current boot1/boot2 to load kernel from DOS partition? How? Or, are you saying that /boot/loader is able to do that? Then again, how? Thus far all my attempts at using something other than FreeBSD partition for $currdev result in nice System halted message. BTW. Issuing 'set' with no args should behave as 'show' IMHO, instead of 'System halted'... > either change $currdev or set $rootdev to the 'real' root filesystem. > > ($rootdev was being bogusly ignored until recently, so you will want to > be up to date) I am (sources as of yesterday). While I'm at it: I think the built-in commands of /boot/loader should leave their result on Forth stack. Otherwise it's really hard to test if they were successfull. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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